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Photographer: Allen C. Browne
Taken: April 13, 2014
Caption: Robert and Clara Shorts Adams
Additional Description: By conveying this land to the county for African American education, Robert and Clara Adams assisted in bringing a public school to their community. Married in 1886, they had grown up here in the post-Civil War era as neighbors on land purchased by Clara's father. A founder of the Oakland Baptist Church, Clara continued as a pillar of the community beyond Robert's death in 1930. Clara Adams was buried in 1952 next to her husband just east of the school she helped establish. Her headstone stands today on land once owned by her parents, Burr and Harriett Stuart McKnight Shorts. Close-up of photo on marker
Submitted: March 15, 2015, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p302730
File Size: 1.796 Megabytes

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